In 1 Samuel 26, we read the story of David and Joab sneaking into Saul's camp late one night.  Joab encourages David to kill the sleeping King Saul because after all, "God has delivered him into your hand."  David responds in a way in which all of us need to pay close attention to.  In this message, we will examine the pitfalls of interpreting our circumstances incorrectly to believe it is a message from God and how we can avoid those pitfalls.

In Leviticus 23 we read about the annual set of Holy Days they were to keep.  Each of these Holy Days had a specific meaning given to it and all were meant to remind the Children of Israel who they were as a holy nation and to also remind them of their relationship with God.  One of those Holy Days was called the Day of Atonement when they were told to 'deny themselves' for a 24 hour period.  In Leviticus 16 the entire chapter is dedicated to how this day was to be observed and, as in Lev 23 there is a clear command to fast.  What is the role of fasting for the Christian today?  In this message we will discuss the spiritual discipline of fasting and how we are called to use this discipline to draw closer to God.

One of the most misunderstood aspects of the Christian life is the role of 'judging'.  On one hand we are told to discern between good and evil and yet we are told not to judge.  In this passage James writes that speaking against a brother is the same as judging them and we are not the judge of people or the law.  In this message we will dig deeper into what James meant when he addressed judging in this passage of chapter four.

When we first embrace the grace of God through faith, we realize just how unworthy we are and how much we are in need of our Savior. Without God pursuing us through His Spirit and offering us redemption, we could not be saved. We didn’t deserve it and somehow we realized that—that is grace. Gradually, like the Galatians who Paul writes to, we begin inexplicably trying to obtain our goal by human effort instead. What causes us to make that shift? What bewitched us? Why do we have such a hard time trusting? Why do we think trying to earn His presence in our lives is somehow easier than accepting what the Spirit offers? What a paradox!

This is the first of the Healing and Dealing series that will be ongoing throughout the years ahead.  The purpose of this series is to take on common trials or challenges in a practical way through Biblical teaching and by testimonies given by those that have dealt with divorce and have experienced healing. In this first message in the series called Healing and Dealing from Divorce Pastor Scott will talk about what the Bible has to say about divorce and two testimonies will be shared by Rebecca Randall and Lyn Smith about dealing with forgiveness and breaking the cycle of divorce.

The Old Testament as a whole points to Jesus. Specifically there are numerous passages of prophecy relating to the coming Messiah, Jesus Christ. These prophecies are not just in the major and minor prophets of the OT, but also found in the Psalms and historical books as well. When sin entered into the world, so did the ever repeated promise of a Redeemer! These prophets also knew full and well whom they were foretelling about. Prophecy fulfilled in the birth, life, and sacrificial death of Jesus is powerful evidence of His Messiahship and validates the credibility and supernatural inspiration of the Old Testament, fulfilled many hundreds of years in the future.

How many jokes and anecdotes have you heard about the differences between men and women?  It is so incredibly obvious that men and women are indeed different but these differences we all see and experience are all by design.  In this first message in the Divine Design Series we will go all the way back to the Creation account and from the passages in Genesis that speak about the creation of man and women we will come to see some fundamental truths about why God created male and female and begin to lay the groundwork for this series of the Divine Design.

In an account that sounds like a story from some great novel we read 44 action packed verses about the story of the fated ship Paul is sailing and which is finally wrecked on a reef on Malta. In the story we read this storm was huge and went on for days and days. Men were afraid for their lives yet through it all Paul knew he was going to live because an Angel of the Lord had told him he was going to face Caesar. Can you imagine, however, how hard that must have been to continue to believe with the creaking and groaning timbers of the boat straining to hold together as the waves and wind assaulted them and huge waves constantly tried to capsize them? As seasoned sailors fought to keep the ship afloat, fear filling their eyes?
We have all heard the metaphor of the 'storms of life.' Similar to the actual storm Paul endured, these storms can go on for days, weeks and sometimes months and years. Long periods of times where waves and strong winds seem to be trying to destroy us. In this message we will examine the Bible to see how we can be like Paul and have the confidence to weather these 'storms of life' regardless of how long or frightening they may be.

In Acts 18:24 we are introduced in the narrative to the person of Apollos.  He was a Jew.  A native of Alexandria who was an educated man and a man of considerable oratory gifts.  He was preaching the 'way of the Lord' but apparently (vs. 25) he was still lacking some knowledge or truth.  That is when Priscilla and Aquila came into play.  They invited him to their home and taught him those things he was lacking.  What we see here is someone what was a powerful and learned man who humbly accepted teaching from two individuals who were probably not as learned as he was.  We are call to both teach and to be taught.  In this message we are going to look the Godly qualities of being both a student and a teacher and why we all need to be both.